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Raw07
Raw07 Posts: 206
edited September 2024 in Food and Nutrition
How do i plan meals that are only 1200 calories and follows the Canada's Food Guide?

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  • Valtishia
    Valtishia Posts: 811 Member
    I don't think its really possible unfortunately, eating only 1200 calories when they are going by a 2000 calorie diet. If you want to follow the guide closely, then upping your activity level to compensate would allow for it.
  • auntiebabs
    auntiebabs Posts: 1,754 Member
    MFP gave me 1290 to lose 1 lb/wk when I first started and I gotta tell you trying to make my total fall with in that 90 calorie range was going to drive me nuts! I couldn't do it so rather than being uberstrict with the target MFP set for me I did the math to find out the calories needed to maintain my GOAL WEIGHT and my CURRENT WEIGHT and I gave myself a range with 1200 as my rock bottom, lose 1 lb/wk as my target** and maintain my GOAL weight as the top of my range. As long as I keep within in this range I'll lose. I tended to naturally zig zag my calories 2-3 days at very close to my target and then a higher calorie day closer to the top of my range.

    This was enough to lessen the stress enough so that I could stick with it and so far the results have followed, just a little slower. Then again the say the slower you lose the more likely you are to maintain. So that's okay by me.

    As for Canada's Food Guide I dunno. I actually think I'll research it/ It might be a better resource that the US's.

    ** when I got closer to my goal I switched to lose 1/2 lb/wk as my target calories. which makes my range smaller

    Now that maintain is getting much closer I'm stressing over the fact that I won't have as much wiggle room from day to day.
  • SueHerm
    SueHerm Posts: 25 Member
    Your question sent me searching for Canada's Food Guide. So having seen it, I don't think you can eat all of that and be within 1200 calories. Jeez, 3 tablespoons of oil? That's about 300 calories all by itself. It's low in meat, that helps, but all that grain is a lot of calories, too. I would just cut the oils back to one tablespoon, the grains to 4 or so servings, and aim for more vegetables than fruit (but do include some).
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